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I have spent many many hours failing to implement nomencl for my PhD thesis. The problem seems to be with invoking makeindex and creating the .nls file
I keep reading that I must invoke makeindex or write a Unix command:
makeindex filename.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o filename.nls
But I don't know how to do this. I would be grateful for some instructions i.e. where do I type the command?
I am using TeXShop 2.43.
Save a new file ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/Nomenclature.engine with following contents:
#!/bin/sh
bfname=$(dirname "$1")/"`basename "$1" .tex`"
makeindex "$bfname".nlo -s nomencl.ist -o "$bfname".nls
Make this new file executable using chmod u+x ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/Nomenclature.engine from within a shell or set the executable bit at the file privileges. See, e.g., WikiHow for more information about how to change file privileges.
Restart TeXShop. Now you should have an entry Nomenclature in the drop down menu next to Typeset.
To get a nomenclature first run LaTeX, then Nomenclature, then LaTeX again.
chmod a+x ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/Nomenclature.engine. Unfortunately, this is not possible from the Finder.
– egreg
Dec 8 '11 at 13:50
x bit (Leopard; no Snow Leopard or Lion machine now).
– egreg
Dec 8 '11 at 16:11
These are detailed steps to accomplish it:
1) In the mac terminal, go to ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ and type:
vi Nomenclature.engine
2) In the terminal, press the key "i" (for insert) once.
3) From here, copy the following code:
#!/bin/sh
bfname=$(dirname "$1")/"`basename "$1" .tex`"
makeindex "$bfname".nlo -s nomencl.ist -o "$bfname".nls
4) In the terminal, press "control+clic" and clic on "Paste" menu.
5) In the terminal, press "esc" then type ":wq" and enter (this writes and quits the file).
6) In the terminal, type:
sudo chmod a+x Nomenclature.engine
7) In the terminal, enter your password.
8) Quit TeXShop (if opened) and start it again.
9) Nomenclature is ready to be executed.
Remember to execute: Latex-Nomenclature-Latex to obtain the expected results.
